“ I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father.

“这些事，我是用比喻对你们说的；时候将到，我不再用比喻对你们说，乃要将父明明地告诉你们。

“这些事，我是用比方对你们说的；时候将到，我不再用比方对你们说，而是要把父的事明白地告诉你们。

“这些事，我是用比方对你们说的；时候将到，我不再用比方对你们说，而是要把父的事明白地告诉你们。

“我一直用比喻跟你们讲这些事，不久，我就不再用比喻了，而是清楚地把父的事告诉你们。

“我用譬喻对你们说了这些事，时候要到，我不再用譬喻对你们说了，而是把关于父的事明明白白告诉你们。

“我用比喻对你们说了这些话。但是时候就要到了！那时我不再用比喻对你们说话，而是要明确地告诉你们有关父的事。

「這些事，我是用比喻對你們說的；時候將到，我不再用比喻對你們說，乃要將父明明地告訴你們。

「這些事，我是用比方對你們說的；時候將到，我不再用比方對你們說，而是要把父的事明白地告訴你們。

「這些事，我是用比方對你們說的；時候將到，我不再用比方對你們說，而是要把父的事明白地告訴你們。

「我一直用比喻跟你們講這些事，不久，我就不再用比喻了，而是清楚地把父的事告訴你們。

“我用譬喻對你們說了這些事，時候要到，我不再用譬喻對你們說了，而是把關於父的事明明白白告訴你們。

『這些事我是用隱喻對你們說的；時候必到，那時我就不再用隱喻對你們講話了；我乃是要坦然無隱地將父傳告你們。

「我用比喻對你們說了這些話。但是時候就要到了！那時我不再用比喻對你們說話，而是要明確地告訴你們有關父的事。

凡此我曾以喻語爾、時至、我不復以喻語爾、乃以父明示於爾、

我以此設譬告爾、時至、我不設譬、乃以父明示爾、

我設喻以此事告爾、時將至、我不復設喻告爾、乃以父明示爾、

予向以譬喻教爾、惟時即至、予將不復設譬、必欲明白曉暢、以父示爾。

“ Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.

“ I have not been speaking to you plainly. But a time is coming when I will speak clearly. Then I will tell you plainly about my Father.

“ I have spoken of these matters in figures of speech, but soon I will stop speaking figuratively and will tell you plainly all about the Father.

“ I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

“ These things I have spoken to you in figures of speech; an hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

“ These things I have spoken to you in figurative language; but the time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

These things have I spoken unto you in dark sayings: the hour cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in dark sayings, but shall tell you plainly of the Father.

“ I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. A time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.

“ I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech; a time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

“ I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

Then the disciples came and said to him,“ Why do you speak to them in parables?”And he answered them,“ To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”His disciples said,“ Ah, now you are speaking plainly and not using figurative speech!

All these things Jesus said to the crowds in parables; indeed, he said nothing to them without a parable.This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet:“ I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.”

This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

And he said to them,“ Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.

I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,

Since we have such a hope, we are very bold,not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end.But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts.But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed.Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says,“‘ The Lord said to my Lord,“ Sit at my right hand,until I make your enemies your footstool.”’Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

“ A little while, and you will see me no longer; and again a little while, and you will see me.”So some of his disciples said to one another,“ What is this that he says to us,‘ A little while, and you will not see me, and again a little while, and you will see me’; and,‘ because I am going to the Father’?”

to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.